He fled Pennsylvania in early June and was captured outside Richmond, Va., a few days later. While in Virginia, Wishnefsky delayed his return to Carbon County until November by challenging his arrest.

On Monday, Wishnefsky was back in Carbon County Court, trying for a second time to have Assistant District Attorney David W. Addy thrown off his case with another claim of prosecutorial misconduct. And Carbon County Judge Richard W. Webb again threw out the claim, ruling it was meritless.

Webb warned Wishnefsky he wants the case to go to trial next month.

"This case has dragged on and dragged on and dragged on," Webb said.

Wishnefsky, 54, of Howard Avenue, Pottsville, was arrested April 6, 1996, by state police from the Lehighton and Hazleton barracks.

Police say Wishnefsky repeatedly raped two girls, now 11 and 18, between 1987 and 1992 at a Towamensing Township home. He faces 133 charges, and if convicted on just a few of the allegations, faces a sentence that would keep him in prison for life.

On Monday, Wishnefsky claimed he was denied access to a law library when he was held in the Schuylkill County Prison in May on unrelated charges, and Addy lied about it in court papers. Addy said he was told Wishnefsky, a paralegal who has been helping with his own defense, had access to the library.

Webb said even if the claim were true, it didn't matter because Wishnefsky has a lawyer, Robert Kurtz of Shenandoah, who could have gone to the law library for him.

In the past, Wishnefsky has sought to have Addy dismissed by claiming he withheld police reports and made false statements. Webb found the claims were untrue.

Wishnefsky also claimed Addy should not prosecute because he's been both a witness and lawyer in the case. Addy had to take the stand to defend himself from some of the pretrial filings.

Wishnefsky has one more motion outstanding against Addy -- a claim of selective prosecution. In that motion, Wishnefsky alleges he is not getting a plea bargain offer because he has lived with a black woman. Wishnefsky claims Addy, who keeps a picture of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. above his desk at home and work, used a racial slur.